The Case for Community Wealth Building

by Guinan, Joe; O'neill, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781509539024
• ISBN10: 1509539026
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-12-31
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? 

Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill argue for an approach that uses the power of democratic participation to drive equitable development and ensure that wealth is widely shared. They show how this model – Community Wealth Building – can transform our economic system by creating a web of collaborative institutions, from worker cooperatives to community land trusts and public banks, that empower and enrich the many, not the few.

This book is essential reading for everyone interested in building more equal, inclusive, and democratic societies.

Author Biography

Joe Guinan is Vice President at The Democracy Collaborative and Executive Director of the Next System Project.

Martin O’Neill is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction   
Economic Change, Starting at the Local Level

Chapter One
What is Community Wealth Building?

Chapter Two
Taking Control: Arguing for Community Wealth Building

Chapter Three
Community Wealth Building and the Institutional Turn:
Routes to a Democratic Economy

Further Reading and Resources for Action

Notes